"THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE"
a half apologetic tone
to defend this, declar
ing that one must not
omit the little duties
of the reverent trav
eler, and asking, "Do
we not love to read on
the fragment of the
statue of Memnon the
names of the Romans
who heard its sigh at
break of day?"
The two writers
probably followed
what was considered
merely conventional a
century ago, when that
storehouse of trite ut
terances, the visitors'
book, was not so coin
mon as now.
THE MARBLES OF SUN
IUM'S TEMPLE A
DAZZLING WHITE
It is interesting to
notice that the marbles
of this temple, drawn
from a near-by quarry,
are to-day, after
twenty-five centuries
of the sea-wind's play,
of an unsullied and
dazzling whiteness;
those of the Parthenon
have with time taken
on a marvelous golden
A CON
brown tone, but have
better resisted the ravages of years than
those at Sunium.
We looked out over the blue waters
toward the double line of the Cyclades.
In the dimmest northeast distance Eubcea
sprawled its length, with Andros and
Tenos as pendants to its brown throat.
It was a fair, cool, clear day and the
island of Melos was dimly visible, lying
almost due south. It was there, it will be
recalled, that in 1820 the famous Venus
was found and carried to France through
the activity of a French diplomatist.
Even while we looked, the kindly breeze
freshened and ugly clouds heavy with rain
flew up from Oros; fishing-boats, like
homing birds, began to run toward the
shore; as they drew near, the wind in-
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TERED BALCONY IN ANDRITSINA
creasing in violence, sail was shortened,
and they seemed like huge gulls shot on
the wing, as the varicolored canvas came
fluttering down to the decks.
There is at Sunium an aged Greek who
exercises a guardianship over the ruins.
We visited his little garden, planted in a
series of irregular terraces sloping down
to the sea. Some one recited sonorously
Swinburne's "Forsaken Garden," and the
fascinating meter so harmonized with the
stretch of sea and sky as to give to it a
charm such as we had not realized before.
ALONG THE GREEK RIVIERA
There is a bridle and footpath from
Sunium to Athens, skirting the coast,
necessitating a night in the open-not at
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